Canopy Newsletter 20 - April 2025

April 2025

10 Million Simulations

We've just hit a very important milestone in this, our tenth year... ten million simulations run on the platform! Of course, we've sent a special gift to the Canopy user who ran that simulation. Thank you to all those involved!

2026 F1 Regulations tested in Dynisma DiL

Canopy is compatible with the 2026 F1 regulations. To showcase this, we filmed a sneak preview of what to expect next year:

F1 2026 Car Changes Explained with Gary Paffett | Simulator Insights from Dynisma + Canopy

2025 Product Roadmap

Thanks to all of you who have contributed to our feature requests. This is really valuable in helping to shape the product roadmap.

  1. Robust mode. The top request is a robust mode intended to allow users to re-run a failed job from a study, or start a new sim with a slower but more reliable method. Internal reporting of convergence will take place with every model build, so we will monitor and improve the underlying reliability, while robust mode will provide a handy backup option.

  2. 20% quicker Dynamic Lap. We want to push our technology even harder to save valuable time at the track.

  3. Dynamic Inference. It has been in the works for a while, but this year will see the release of two operating modes: one for inferring tyre parameters from track data, and the other as a fully dynamic replacement for Channel Inference, allowing for more representative powertrain and tyre forces to be inferred from track data.

  4. Reporting of compute credits. At a glance, see how many of the included credits have been used.

  5. Motorbike demonstrator. Leverage the collocation solver to simulate a motorbike. If you have any interest in this project, please get in touch.

Kaizen

  • Updates will take place to stay relevant in all series, including IndyCar Hybrid, FE Gen 4, and shift delays where work is ongoing with regards to improving convergence.

  • We have some updated motor documentation to help explain some of the channel definitions more clearly.

  • On and part-throttle harvest maps and options have been improved.

  • To quantify your own deployment strategies, sLap dependent motor limits can be defined as a target during deployment or harvest rather than a limit by introducing a solver penalty to hit the limit.

  • An updated transmission framework will allow for an even greater range of powertrain topologies including ICE-4WD.

  • Updates to abstract external suspension and external lookup suspension to be more valuable as design tools.

Housekeeping

It is important to keep the user experience as simple as possible, so we intend to deprecate some old features:

  • Dynamic Lap will move from Apex Sim to Cornering Sim later in Q2, which will require an update to any internal or API code which directly references "ApexSim". To aid the transition, existing sim versions will still output results using "ApexSim". This will allow for deprecation of the other simulations in early Q4.

  • rAxleSlipBoundRatioF: This will be removed for reliability. Please use rear rLateralStiffnessToZeroSlipStiffnessMin instead.

  • Drag Sim: This will be removed in early Q4. Instead use Dynamic Lap with an initial and terminal velocity on the default Drag-Strip track.

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